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Executive and Legislative documents laid before the General Assembly of North-Carolina [1871; 1872]

o-i Document Ko. 80. [Session
Monday, January 20, 1871.
The committee met pursuant to adjournment, at 48 Xational
Hotel. Present : Messrs. Latham, Johnston and Morris.
Samuel Mekkill, being duly sworn, deposes and says :
Q. Do you know any thing concerning the management of
the Penitentiary of which it is important this committee should
be informed ?
A. Only from reports.
Q. It appears from the testimony of several witnesses tliat
you notified them to attend ; state to the committee whether
in doing this you have been actuated by feelings of ill-will or
malice towards the directors, or any of tliem, and M'hether you
have in any way attempted to influence their testimony ?
.V. I have not done it with ill-v.'ill or malice towards the
directors, or any of them ; I had heard reports from parties
both inside and outside that the Penitentiary was improperly
conducted during June, Jnly, August and September ; these
reports came both from parties connected and parties uncon-nected
with the institution, and I promised them that I would
try and have the matter looked into when the legislature
re-assembled ; I have in no way, shape or form, attempted to
influence the testimony of any witness.
Q. Did you propose to pay the witnesses ?
A. I proposed to pay their expenses.
Q. (By the Board.) What parties inside the Penitentiary did
you get your information ?
A. Whitlock, Tom Dancy, Wm. King, Mangum, Pabius
Sadler, Wm. Utley, George Scales and others I do not remember.
Q. What parties outside?
A. Mr. Harris of Franklin ; none others gave any definite,
reliable information. Mr. Coleman never told me anything
about the manageiiient.
Q. Who was the witnesses whose expenses you promised to
pay.
A. I paid Johnson for 3 days, $6,00. I promised to pay

o-i Document Ko. 80. [Session
Monday, January 20, 1871.
The committee met pursuant to adjournment, at 48 Xational
Hotel. Present : Messrs. Latham, Johnston and Morris.
Samuel Mekkill, being duly sworn, deposes and says :
Q. Do you know any thing concerning the management of
the Penitentiary of which it is important this committee should
be informed ?
A. Only from reports.
Q. It appears from the testimony of several witnesses tliat
you notified them to attend ; state to the committee whether
in doing this you have been actuated by feelings of ill-will or
malice towards the directors, or any of tliem, and M'hether you
have in any way attempted to influence their testimony ?
.V. I have not done it with ill-v.'ill or malice towards the
directors, or any of them ; I had heard reports from parties
both inside and outside that the Penitentiary was improperly
conducted during June, Jnly, August and September ; these
reports came both from parties connected and parties uncon-nected
with the institution, and I promised them that I would
try and have the matter looked into when the legislature
re-assembled ; I have in no way, shape or form, attempted to
influence the testimony of any witness.
Q. Did you propose to pay the witnesses ?
A. I proposed to pay their expenses.
Q. (By the Board.) What parties inside the Penitentiary did
you get your information ?
A. Whitlock, Tom Dancy, Wm. King, Mangum, Pabius
Sadler, Wm. Utley, George Scales and others I do not remember.
Q. What parties outside?
A. Mr. Harris of Franklin ; none others gave any definite,
reliable information. Mr. Coleman never told me anything
about the manageiiient.
Q. Who was the witnesses whose expenses you promised to
pay.
A. I paid Johnson for 3 days, $6,00. I promised to pay